Flour sifter



Aug. 21, 1923.

A. S. WOOLSTENCROFT FLOUR SIFTER Filed July 22 1922 Fatented Aug. 21; 1923.

ealraasraras FLOUR SIFTER.

llpplication filed July 22, 1922. Serial No. 576,776.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that'l l nxaxunn SlVoorr s'rENcuorr, a citizen of the United States, residing at l uldaQ in the county of lliiurray and State of Minnesota, hayexinvented a certain new and useful lin'iproveinent in Flour Sifters, of which'the 'l ollowing is a .l ull, clear, and exact description, I i

Theobject oi" this'inyentionis to provide asi fter for flour-and the'li'ke adapl'ed primarily, to the purpose of sittingllour several times before its removal "from the sitter, but it is well adapted also, for use, as tlour sitters are ordinarily employed, for sitting flour only once before it is. made into a dough or batter or otherwise used. V

I' 'lhe invention consists in a flour sitter comprising a receptacle havinga bottom, side walls, and an open top, a cover for closing the topof the receptacle, and a removable siffter-screen provided with a su port contacting with the bottom and the cover of the receptacle to hold the screen in proper position substantially midway ot' the height of the receptacleyas I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the inrention, in the se eral in ures or which like parts are similarly ('lesignated, F igure 1 is a central vertical section of the sitter. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the sitter-- screen and ring with its support, removed I from the receptacle. 7 p

The sitter comprises a receptacle such as a cylindrical, or other shaped, can having a bottom 1 and sidewalls 2 and open at its top. v

3 is a sitter-screen, carried by a ring 4 of such dimensions as to provide for itsell a sliding frictional engagement with the side walls .2 of the receptacle. The screen 3 may be connected to the ring in any suitable way, as by soldering or by rolling the edge of the screen and ring together. It is desirable for best practical operation of the Sifter to support the screen 3 substantially midway of the receptacle, and this I accomplish by means of a support in the form of a substantially inverted U-shaped wire, the sides 5 of which are connected to the ring el by solc ering or in any other suitable manner. The portions oi these sides extending below the scree lorm legs (3 adapted to contact with the bottom 1 of the receptacle. The portion of the support is used as l"ollows,:'lhe cover 8 is removed and the required amount of flour is placed in the chamber 10 oi the receptacle above the screen 3, and the cover replaced. Then the sitter is grasped in the two hands oi the user by its top and bottom and shaken untih as the balance ol' the sitter indicates, all of the flour has passed through the screen and into the lower chamber ll. Now if desired, the cover may be removed and any large particles o'l flour, ,or any et;- trancous matter, failed to pass which through the screen may be removed by li'l'ting the screen out of the receptacle by its handle 7 and the particles of flour and ex traneous matter 1 being retained upon the screenby the ring l, may be dun'iped out.

' It one sitting oi the flour is deemed sufii cient. the sifted flour may nowbe re iioved from the ISCQptRClQ. y t

- If two sittings are desired, the screen may be replaced, the receptacle inverted, and the sifted flour resil'tml and at the sametiine discharged lhrougl'i the top of the 'receptacle. When the ecoptacle is used'in inverted position the frictional engagement of ring' l with the side-walls 2 of the receptacle will ordinarily be sufiicient to hold the screen in position, but iit'the frctional engagement is not su'liicient to so hold the screen, the user may place a finger over the top edge of the receptacle and upon the handle 7.

If it is desired to sift the flour a number of times after the large particles and extraneous matter have been removed, it is merely necessary to replace the screen and cover and by repeatedly inverting and shaking the receptacle sil t the flour back and forth through the screen until it is thought to be in the condition desired for use.

By making a frictional or close it between the ring il: and the side walls 2 it obvious thatl make it necessary for all of the flour placed in the receptacle to pass through the screen instead of leaking around it.

It is to be noted that when the screen is vised, but I do not knowotany in whichthe screen isremovably mounted in a container and provided witha handle for litting it out of thej'coi'itainer and legs for supporting it in proper position within the container.

' I have hereinabove spoken of the sitter as r v a flour sitter, and it .is for thesifting of Hour that it is primarily adapted; but it is obvious that it is capable of use for si'lting other mat terialsas well as flour.

It is conceivable that various changes and modifications may be made in the invention as shown and described, and I therefore wish it understood thatl do not consider the same as limited to the particular disclosure, except as set forth in the following claims. I

. What I claim is l. A fioursifter, comprising a receptacle having a closed bottom and an open top, a cover for closing the receptacle, a screen, and a support for said screen coextensive with the height of said receptacle and'cooperating with the bottom and cover of the receptacle to maintain the screen in adjusted relation within the receptacle.

2. A flour sitter, comprising a receptacle hating a closed bottom and an open top, a cover for closing the receptacle, a screen, and

a support for said screen extending above and below. it and coextensive with the height ofthe receptacle, the lower portion of the support contacting with the bottom of the receptacle and the upper-portion thereof contactingwith the cover, the screen and its support being bodily removable from therecep tacle. i

3 A flour sitter, comprising a receptacle havinga closed bottom andan open top, a

cover for closing the top "opening, a screen,

and a support tor said screen extending above and below it and coextensive with the height 01 the receptacle, thelo'wer portion of the support forming legs contacting with the bottom of the receptacle, and the upper por tion thereof forming a'han'dle and contacting with said cover, wherebythe screen is supported substantially midway of the height oil said receptacle.

p 4; A fioursii'ter, comprising a receptacle having an open top,- a cover for said top, a screen, and means coextensive with the height of the receptacle tor supporting said screen substantially midway. of theheightof said receptacle, said means includinga-handle adapted to contact with said cover.

5; A flour sifterfico nprising areceptacle having a bottom, sidewalls and'an open top,

a coverfor said top,v a screen-carrying ring arranged for frictional engagement with said side walls, and a support for said ring'coeir 1 tensive with the height of said receptacle and contacting wlthsaid bottom and cover and adapted to position said ring within saidreceptacle; V v

6. A flour sitter, comprising. a receptacle having a closed bottom, side walls and an open top, a cover forsaid top, a screen, a ring carrying said screen, and a support for; said 7 ring coextensive with the helght of said re ceptacle and comprising legsand a handle,

said legs contacting with the bottom of said receptacle and said handle contacting with said cover, whereby said ring is held in fixed relation within the receptacle when the-cover is in place thereon, and the handleatiording means whereby the screen may be removed from the receptacle when the cover isremoved. 

